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A BRIEF account of the life and work of this well-known seismologist by Prof. B. Simon appears in the last number of the Bollettino of the Italian Seismological Society (33, 200-205 (1935)) . He was born on September 1, 1862, at Verona, at that time under Austro-Hungarian dominion, both his parents being Hungarians. He spent the years 1881-84 at the University of Vienna and received the degree of doctor in the latter year. After this, he worked in succession in the Astronomical Observatory of Ogyalla, in the Central Office of Meteorology of Budapest, and as assistant to the celebrated geophysicist Baron L. Eotvos. In 1897, he was appointed professor of cosmography at Budapest. He was one of the founders of the International Association of Seismology, of which he was elected general secretary in 1905. From this time onward, he devoted himself almost exclusively to seismology, his contributions to the science relating to the angle of emergence of seismic waves, the general theory of earthquakes, the depth of the focus, the prevision of earthquakes, etc. He died on October 11, 1934, after a long illness.
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Radó de Kövesligethy. Nature 137, 58 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137058c0
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